Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last was already afoot. Tokyo radio hammered harder than ever at India: "Come over to our side. . . . You have nothing to fear from the Japanese." Indian Traitor Subhas Chandra Bose, leading "several divisions" of traitorous Indian troops across the border, was said to have helped "annihilate . . . several British divisions." But even without believing these preposterous claims, Indians could well be impressed by the fact that except for raids by Afghan tribesmen India had actually been invaded for the first time since the Raj took over...
With machine precision the Germans went into action. Troops drove 400 women, 700 men toward an open square. Those who lacked identity cards were shot out of hand. Those who stumbled were killed. Fear swept unchecked through Rome, but this was not enough...
...inventions from production; violence on the picket line, sometimes incited by management's hired thugs. The worst economic sin, said Johnston, is restraints on production by "featherbedding" and "slow-downing" designed to make more jobs and make them last longer. Root cause of this evil is fear of layoffs; management must try to give its workers continuous employment, backed by adequate unemployment insurance...
Gestapo Chief Wilhelm Rediess decided to change his tactics. He told his bullies to skip the traditional cooling off period, the hours when the weak collapse through fear, but the strong steel themselves for the coming ordeal. His Gestapomen went to work immediately with clubs, pipe-lengths, supple whips...
...death. There is the attempt on the part of a few others, as careful and painful as the probing of a complex wound, to climb a bunker and clean out its far side with rifles, flamethrowers, grenades. There is the weird, exquisite variety of individual expressions of skill and fear, which are the cross-texture of the violence of combat. Smoke, ruined palms, a boundless sense of death choke the screen. Men quickly fire into blindness, take quick cover, each moving jerkily with a quality of loneliness in the midst of action with which no loneliness of peace is comparable...